It’s been another week where I would have preferred to do a lot of other things.
But we need to press on with the blog, so must be time for Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond.
Queens Park Bridge, over the River Dee, Chester.
Data Storage Adventures
- STORAGE ADVENTURES: So Drobo is about to fade out of existence. What next? – I’m still inventing swear words for this new series. Stick around for the comedy that ensues.
Route and Network news
- easyJet to (finally) open a base at Birmingham Airport – Welcome to Birmingham (finally), easyJet.
- Etihad to launch Abu Dhabi to Osaka (Kansai International) route – Etihad’s second Japanese gateway
- flydubai and Air Canada announces a codeshare programme – Emirates, tick. flydubai, tick.
- Qantas to expand capacity… and lease aircraft from Finnair – It’s amazing where you can borrow aircraft from.
Passenger Experience
- Finnair seems to enjoy sticking it to its customers… – Anything to save costs, it seems.
- Emirates reports some uptake numbers since it introduced “free” connectivity – And it’s interesting as it gets
New Aircraft News
- China Airlines to take up its options on Boeing 787-9 – More Dreamliners on the way
- Royal Jordanian to add eight Embraer E2 aircraft to its fleet – Six leased, two purchased
Trains
- LNER Celebrates its “Century” with a specially liveried train – The loosest term of “100 years”
Pretty pictures
Next week
As we ramp up to Aircraft Interiors Expo, things are getting busy (and my appointment book is starting to fill up). If you’re exhibiting at AIX and want to catch up, our landing page is here.
But the real world will continue our usual news, views and analysis – as well as I wonder which NAS to purchase.
Until then, happy landings!
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